The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-14 00:00:00

WURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTFI, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select tom, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and. C . are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo itclm ^able engravings of every description of Furniture and zeasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised tale • A Six -roomed Parsonage An E4 ,- ,ht-roomed ditto A Ten -roomed ditto A Twelve -roomed ditto Together with a ?rice List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring househ3ld furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted t o Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryd e , Ply mou th , Wells. Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, MArgate. Kidder minster, Wellington. Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, Et. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great tr.ta CORBETT and CO„ General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, ANAMA. NEW ZEALAND. and AUSTRA LIAN ROYAL MAIL COMPANY (Limiter). (Intercolonia' Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Limited.) Registered under the Limited Liability Act, by which the liability of every shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. DIRECTORS. Eight Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton. M.P., Chairman. Captain George Blane, R N., 21. Prince's-gardens. Eden Colville, Esq Director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. George Edmett, Esq., The Elms, Maidstone. Captain C. B. Hamilton, R.N., 55, St. George's-square. Sir Richard G. A. Levinge, Bart.. M.P. Edward P. W. Miles, Esq. (Messrs. Miles Brothers and Co.), London, Bristol, and New Zealand. Vice -Admiral Ri lit Hon. Lord George Paulct, C.B. Edward D. Rayment, Esq., Oakfield-house, Norwood. Charles Turner, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Pacific Steam Navic:ation Company. Robert Wilson, Esq., 45, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park • -- AUDITORS. Proposed to be appointed at the Oriinary General Meeting in May. llenry James Lubbock, Esq. (Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., and a Professional Accountant. COLONIAL AUDITOR —R. T. Hall, Esq., Government Audit- office, Sydney. BANKERS. Messrs. Ilobarts, Lubbock, and Co., London. The Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. BROKERS. Messrs. J. Hutchinson and Sons, Angel-court, London. Messrs. Tinley and Sons, Liverpool. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Canßile and Beaumont, 43, Chancery-lane, London. GENERAL MANAGER IN THE COLONIES. Captain John Vine Hall. SECRETARY. James Worley, Esq. Offices—No. 41, Moorgate-street, London, E.C. INCREASE OF CAPITAL Ily the issue of 37,500 ordinary shares of £lO each, repre senting the nominal sum of £375,000. £1 per share to be paid on application, Z 1 per share 14 days after allotment, £3 per share on the Ist October, 1864, and £2 per share the Ist April, 1865, making a payment of £7 per share. The Directors give notice that they are prepared to receive applications for the new shares, the issue of which was autho rised by the Special General Meeting held on the 3d March Instant, in order to enable the Company to perform the con tract recently entered into with the General Government of New Zealand, for a monthly mail service between Sydney, New Zealand. and Panama, in correspondence with the Royal (West India) Mail Company's steamers between Southampton and Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama;. The Intercolonial Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was formed in 1858, under a contract to perform the mail service between the several provinces of New Zealand, and between that colony and Sydney, for whic i they are at present in the receipt of subsidies amounting to upwards of £36,000 per annum. From the commencement of the eanama line, in May, 186 5 , the minimum subsidies payable to the Company for the oceanic and interprovincial services will amount to £96,000 per annum. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, and the Pacific Steam Navigation Company have agreed to enter into work ing arrangements for through traffic, and their fleets, with those of the three other steam lines, converging on the new I. oste, will operate as "feeders" to this Company's ships. When, therefore, it is considered that New Zealand is 2,100 tulles nearer to England, via Panama, than by the present overland route, and 4,000 miles nea rer th an b y th e Cape o f G oo d Mope, and that the intended line will po ssess th e a d van t age economy, both of time and money, there can be no doubt a large portion of the existing passenger, li4ht goods, and specie traffic, will be secured by this Company. The nominal capital of the Company will, in the aggregate, be 4 562,5, of which £412,500 will be paid up. The new shares will be entitled to dividend from the re spective times when the instalments fall due, and on pay ments in advance interest at the rate of 5 percent. per annum Will be allowed. The profits on existing lines are alone sufficient to pay a large dividend on the new as well as on the old shares. Detailed prospectuses, reports, and forms of application for shares can be obtained at tne offices of the Company, and of the brokers and solicitors. THE ISLE of MAN RAILWAY COMPANY (Eimited)—DOUGLAS to PEEL. Capital £lOO,OOO, in 10,000 shares of £lO each, with usual borrowing powers. D e p os it £1 p er s hare on application, further payment on allotment £1 10s. per share. DIRECTORS. Samuel Gibson Getty, Esq., M.P. Belfast. 'William M'Cormick, Esq , , Londonderry, and Regent's -park, London. • Richard A. Mould, Esq., Merchant, Liverpool. T. Harrison Ridley, Esq., Merchant. Liverpool, Joseph Rigby, Esq., Kew, Surrey. With power to add to their number. The N or th a BANKERS. nd South Wales Bank, Liverpool. Messrs ' --11 nnibell, Son, and Howard, Douglas. G. W, n em ENGINEER. -ail; ES T, C.E., 13, Queen-square,Westminster. Messrs, Littledale, nidsleommons. d Bardawell , Brown's. build ing's, Liver:3°ol. Y' an Simnel Barris, Esq., Douglas. AUDITOR. Thomas W. Read, Esq., 30. Castle-street, Liverpool. sscrtrra.ny, T homas Begot, Esq, ,5, James-street, Liverpool. BROKERS. P. R. Drinkwater, Esq., 32, Exchanc•e•st. East, Liverpool. Charles Stanley, Esq., 3, Throgmort b on• street, London. Edward Ashworth, Esq., Exchange-chambers, Manchester. M. J. Beverley, Esq., Leeds. This Company has been formed for the construction of a Railway from Douglas to Peel (passing through St. John's), in the Isle of Man. Tho improved trade of these important towns, as well as the prosperous condition and increasing population of the island, and the rapid augmentation of the number of visitors during late years, call for the immediate introduction of railways. The Agricultural capabilities of the Island are great ; and its Mineral products are acknowledged to be rich in yield and avave average value ; whilst around the Coast there are extensive Fisheries, and an unlimited supply of Sea weed for Manure. The expense and trouble, however, of land-carriage, have hitherto rendered these advantages com paratively unavailable. Slate Quarries are in active operation ; and the quality of the Slate is equal in closeness of grain and durability to any produced from the great Welsh quarries. The Granite near St. John's compares favourably with that now used in the Liverpool Dock Works, and would at once, by means o f railway facilities, become available for export. One of the proposed Stations on the line will be at St. John's, where the Courts of Tynwald meet, and which is also the centre of the Foxdale mining district. The produce of these mines is now brought by land-carriage (there being am water communication) to Douglas, a distance of nearly ten miles, whilst Coals and other important materials, as Well as all necessaries required by the inland population, are conveyed into the interior by the same mode. Besides these items of traffic, the Fairs, which are frequently held during the year in this district, must add considerably to the annual revenue of the Company. The principal towns are Douglas, Peel, Castletown, Ramsey, and Laxey : Douglas being the chief port, and the great commercial depot, as well as the principal place of arrival and departure of the steam packets plying to and from the Island. At the port of Peel the fisheries are prin cipally conducted, employing upwards of 1,000 vessels; the place of destination for the produce is Douglas ; the route is tedious, and the transit by the existing means ex pansive. Tne access to the Island is easy, and the means of corn- I znunication with Liverpool, Fleetwood, Whitehaven, Zilloth, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and other ports, both by sailing and steam vessels, are frequent and convenient. Hence, Tourists visit the Island in large numbers, above 100,000 pas sengers h aving been landed at its Ports during the past year. Such Visitors, attracted by the antiquarian relics, scenery, and other objects of interest, would, as a matter of course, go by the proposed Railway from Douglas to the interior, and across the Island to Peel. The highest medical authorities bear testimony to the salubrity of the climate and purity of the water. The picturesque is united with the more solid advantage of cheap living, provisions being abundant and comparatively inex pensive, whilst the rates of duties on foreign produce are so small as to render the Island most advantageous as a per manent place of residence. Her Majesty's Government and the Local Authorities aro now expending upwards of £60,000, for the improvement of the Ports of Douglas and Peel. The Electric Telegraph to England has been recently established. The Lines of Rail will bo single, with requisite sidings. The length of Line will be about twelve miles, and the gradients easy throughout. The landowners and popula tion along it are most favourable to the project. From Statistics recently collected on the spot, with much care, by competent persons, and well supported by Official Returns, it is confidently expected that the Traffic will re turn a good Dividend upon the Invested Capital, The fol lowing is an Estimate of the Traffic : • Passengers, inclusive of Tourists £7,500 per annum. Goods, Minerals, Fish, &c .. 5,500 Parcels and M a il s 150 Working E xpenses at even 50 per Cent£l3,lso . 6,500 Leaving for Dividend ...... Plans, Sections, &c., of the Line are completed, and all necessary forms are being complied with, in accordance with the St: ridin g Orders of the Court of Tynwald to obtain an Act of the Local Parliament. Neither Imperial or Local Taxes are levied in the Island, and those heavy charges which tend so much to reduce the value of Railway property in England and other countries, no less than to diminish the Shareholders' Dividends, can not, in any degree whatever, prevail with respect to this Lino. the andeminent Contractor's firm have agreed to purchase furnishmake the Railway, provide an d fit up all Stations, Rolling Stock for working the Line, and Telegraphs, upon satisfactory terms. Interest at 5 per cent, per Annum. of the Lin e , on the amount will be all owed, until the opening raid upon shares. An advantageous arrangement can be made with respon sible parties to Lease the Line for 7. 14, or 21 years. Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained from the Secretary, Solicitors, or Brokers of the Company. MESSRS. }OTT. JAC KSON, AN D CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the Year. Year Market pric e guaranteed. Remittances, London and well-park Market Bank l'ost-vflhe Orders payable at Camb er - N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—Borr and JABICSON, "Mail of the World" Wine tore., CieOrge-etreet, Cunberwell-park, London. T HE WARRANT BANKING COMPANY (Limited.) FOR ADVANCES ON MERCHANDISE AND SECURITIES.) Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862. Capital £2,000,000, in 40,000 shares of £5O each. First Issue, 20,000 shares. Deposit £1 per share on application, and £4 per share on allotment. Future calls will not exceed £5 per share, at intervals of three months. DIRECTORS. Joseph Bravo, Esq., of J. Bravo and Co., London. Archibald Bruce, Esq., of the late firm of Bruce and Co., Abchurch-lane, London. W. J. R. Cotton, Esq., of Culverwell, Broo', s, and Cotton, London. A. D. De Pass, Esq., of De Pass and Sons, London. Abel Heywood. Esq., ex-Mayor of Manchester, Director of the Alliance Bank, Manchester. George Harvey Jay, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard, late of the firm of Quilter, Ball, and Jay, London. Thomas Jolly, Esq., of Thom is Jolly and Co , Manchester. William M'Andrew, Esq., of William M'Andrew and Sons, London. H. R. Marriott, Esq., of Henry Marriot' and Co., Manchester. William M. Neill, Esq., of Neill Brothers and Co., London and Manchester. George Palmer Robinson, Esq, Director of the Alliance Bank, London. Albert Ricardo, Esq., of A. and W. Ricardo, London. William Rawstron, Esq., of Ralph Rawstron, Manchester. RANKERS, London, Liverpool, and Manchester—The Alliance Bank. SOLICITORS. London—Messrs, Fy , on, Tathams, Curling, and Walls, Fre derick',-place, Old Jewry. „ Messrs. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane. Liverpool —Messrs. Fletcher, Hull, and Stone. Manchester—Messrs. Sale, Worthington, Shipman, and Seddon. BROKERS. London—Messrs. J. and J. Whitehead, Mo - •rgate-street. Liverpool—Messrs. Gasquoine and Chamberlain. Manchester—Messrs. Shore and Kirk. TEMPORARY OFFICER. 21, Throgmorton-street, London. PROSPECTUS. While Exchange Banks and Credit ns u ions have been established to connect this country financially with almost every foreign market, and to give fact Hies for conveying to our shores every description of merchandise, it is remarkable that as soon as the operation of importing is performed the monetary facilities are withdrawn. The bills drawn upon our merchants mature, and must either be 'net by the mer chant's capital unaided or by sales. Thiv, when tempo rari y there is an excess of any co , nmodity imported, its price is undu y depr , ssed, and s riou. losses are incurre Ordinary bankers and discount houses dislike making ad vances upon merchandise, having no organisation for exa mining the goods and correct y estimating their value. What they want are good bills, drawn on those who, know ing the value, have accepted for a fair advance. Division of labour is here as elsewhere found to be most convenient and profitable. To meet this want, which every merchant must acknow ledge, the Warrant Bank'ng Company is formed. The bu 1- ness of the Company will mainly :onsist in making , dy noes upoji deposit of the staple articles of produce, represented by dock warrants or other means of absolute assignment, duly inspected and valued on behalf of the Company, and with a proper margin to allow for depreciation. These advances will be made in a ceptances by the Com p.,ny of the drafts of its customers, and as every bill will re present mer handise readily convertible, and b at the same time secured by the whole ca ital of a poWerlul Company, the exact position of which will be patent to al , there can be no doubt that the whole Die ount Market will be available when it is desired by tho holder to turn the bill into cash. _ _ It will be readily apparent that the existence of such an institution, while it will be of great service to merchant., and increase the stability of the entire class, will be an equal con venience to bant ees and clivount firms, furnishing them with a class of bills raeely obtainable. In order to render the due payment of the Company's acceptances certain, the Directors undertake that the entire paid-up capital of the Company will be invested, and, sofar as practicable, remain invested in British and East Indian Government securities, and upon deposit at call, and it is proposed that the capital thus paid up and invested within the first year shall reach the sum of at least £2OO,COP. The field which exists for such an undertaking will be at once apparent from a glance at the Board of Trade returns of foreign impor s for the past year, which amounted (not to speak of home produce) to over £200,C00,000. If we estimate the average stock of foreign goods held in warehouse, as equal to three months' consumption, it would represent an amount of £50,000,000. Advances may also be made when deemed advisable noon Mocks and Shares, in permanent undertakings readily con vertible. A. re , sonable proportion will always be maintained be tween the extent of business undertaken a , d the caFed-up capital. Should it be necessary, the latter will be increased to one million sterling, to be invested as already indicated, simply as a guarantee fund. Branches will, in due time, be established at Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, &c. &c. Tle Direc , ors will not receive any remuneration until the shareholders have been paid £5 per cent. by way of dividend on their paid-up capital. Atter payment of 5 per cent. the Directors will receive one-fifth of the nett profits. No promotion money will be paid for originating this un dertaking. The preliminary expenses will be confined to the necessary disbursements. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained of the brokers, bankers, solicitors, and at the tem porary offices of the Company, but no application for shares will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per share has been previou-ly p , id to the bankers of the Company. In the event of no a lotment being made the deposit will be returned without deduction, and should the number allotted be 1 , -ss than the number applied for, the payment in excess will be applied towards the balance of the deposit. No.— N°. 22,376. TEN PER CENT. MORTGAGE BONDS.- STRAND MUSIC lIALL COMPANY (Limited) BONDS of £5O each, are now ready for issue. constituting a First Charge upon the Property of the Company, repayable in Three Years, and beartng Interest at £lO per Cent. per Annum, p tyable halt-yearly. Apply at the Offices of the Company, 315, Strand, W.C. or to Mr. G. T. Taylor, Stec& and Share Broker, 11, Token house-yard, E.C. By Order of the Board, FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Secy. THE ALBION BANK (LIMITED) Capital £1,000,000 in 20,000 Shares of £5O each. First Issue, 10,000 Shares. Deposit £1 per Share on Application, and £1 per Share on Allotment. It is not intended to call up more than £l5 per Share. No call will be made for three months after allotment. Three months interval, at least, will elapse between two calls, and no call will exceed £5 per Share. To be Incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies Act of 1862, whereby each shareholder's liability is limited to the amount of his shares. DIRECTORS. James Emzland, Esq. (late of Plymouth), Springfield House, Upper Clapton. Thomas Cave, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex. W. F. Masters, Esq. (firm of W. F, Masters and Sons) Newgate-market. Benjamin Baugh, Esq., Bradford-street and Balsall-heath, Birmingham. J. T. Pri(cliett, Esq. (firm of J. T. Pritchett and Sons), 131, Fenchurch-street. Thomas Aggs, Esq. (firm of Thomas Aggs and Co.), 155, Fen church-street, E.C. Henry Haggard, Esq., banker and bullion merchant, Cheapside. H. F. Potter, Esq. (firm of It. F. Potter and Co.), 25, Newgatc street. A provisional arrangement has been made for merging an old-established private bank with the Albion Bank (Limited), the active Partner of which will join the Board as soon as the Directors are in a position to confirm the provisional agreement. BANKERS. Bank of London, Threadneedle-street. The London and Northern Bank, 2, Bank-buildings, London and Newcastle, Leeds, and Huddersfield. BROKER. James Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart. SOLICITOR. G. W. Cuming Dean, Esq , 27, New Broad-street. AUDITORS William Cooper, Esq., public accountant, 13, George-stree Mansion-house. W. Andrews, Esq., Manager United Kingdom Electric Tele , graph Company. SECRETARY (pro tern.) Mr. H. L. Price. Temporary Offices, 2, Bank-buildings. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. Although the system of jo'nt-stock banking has been esta blished to meet the requirements of most departments of trade, it has not been introduced tor the business of the Agricultural and eattl,!-markets of the metropolis ; and though the population has doubled within the last twenty five years—and consequently the necessary q iantity of sup plies —yet the whole business, amounting to hfteen to twenf y millions per annum, is left in the hands of a few private firms. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Albion Bank is introduced to provide increased facilities for this trade, by establishing an office in the City, as well as at Smithfield and the Metropolitan Catt e-market ; and subsequently, should it be found desirable, by opening branches in he agricultural districts. . . The value of the rapidly-increasing commission business to be transacted by the Albion Bank can be readily appre ciated by a knowledge that the method in which dealings are carried on at the Catrle-market constitutes the bank, the de po•itory of all the moneys passing from the buyer to the producer. The ['hectors have entered into provisional arrangements by which the advantage of c mmencing up in an e Allul shed connexion, under competent and experieno d management, will be secured to Shareholders from the c ,rnmence meet of business, by which they are warranted in expect ing. that they wi,l be enabled to declare a dividend during the first year. Should no al otment take playa the deposits will be returned in full. Should a less number of Shares be a 1 fitted thin are applied for, the deposit will be made available towards the p , ymcnt on , allotment, and the ba'ance, if any, returned to the aprilic Application for Shares may be addressed to the Bankers, Brokers, or Directors of the Company, and to the Secret try, at the Offi.e 3 of the Company. FORSI OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. To the Directori of the Warrant Banking Company (L mitedl. Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of being a Depo-it of Xi per share on shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that num ber, and I agree to become a member of the Company an re spect of such shares, or in respect of any leas number you may al'or me; and to pay on allotment the further deposit of Xi p r share thereon, ant I reqest that my name may be placed on the RegisLer of Members for the s , ares so alloted. Ntime in full Ws , denee Profession or business Date THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN. MOLLARD'S PERFUMED SULPHUR SOAP and CREAM for ordinary toilet purposes, and "BARI:GE' SULPHUR CREAM, for Baths, free from disagreeable odour ; an infallible means of preserving the skin and body in perfect health ; they are also an effectual remedy in curing local and cutaneous affections and rheuma tism. Highly patronised and recommended by the most eminent physicians (see Testimonials). Tablets of Soap, from Nos. 1 to 5, according to the degree of sulphur they contain, sold at the depot, 2, Itupert-street, Coventry-street, London, W., and at all chemists. Prospectuses and testimonials sent on application. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE._The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AMU AMARELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., street, London, Perfumers to her 3 , King-court, Majesty,Lombard respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Apia A marflia has none of the properties of lives ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it i n p e rfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of unuoubted respecta bility, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gormell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales. f \V S PAP En , f•- 4 - Vi • verty. Between 9 744•0171e101k5;114..---;3:1-1/47-9,114-: **C tl` v- N RA. .ghest poimt, and t lerised its fall. By half-pl y o • • • D -••••.., • " 7 . 1 •-g t • ,- • _ • \ • • •cot• , / A u t. ter "144111104L.,- • • t& ' J• t„ti; • ` 44. , e7,c9tiow: lane+ D, • u-•• 14 . f. 764.. great danger of jn 11, flood had reached its marked its rise char act it had subsided abut 28 inches; it increased afterwaras, although it did not again its former height, Of the destruc tive character of the flood there were abundant evidences on s out l of l every hand. Timber in large quantities, bedp os t s , f ea th er beds, tables, clocks, and various kinds of hou se h o ld f urn i ture upon it than a night passedc o'clockrimps ad the il o down, and td aocif a middle-aged no several carcasses clothing of woman other have been in easy dreumstances. The body was re move d to the New River Tavern. At Mexbrough, about seven miles up the river from this town, the bodies of a man, a a woman, a child, apparen tl y a b out t wo years o f ago , were e dress, and, judging by the rings upon the fingers, she mustuescattle was also. taken o. About taken out ; and at Swinton, about a mile still further up, three other bodies were recovered. Large numbers of people have lined the river's banks all the day, but it is now evident that the greatest volume of water has passed by, and further damage here is not ap prehended. The water is very thickly impregnated with mud—a proof that it must have swept with terrific violence over the land adjoining the river. Fish, pike in particular, have been left in large quantities on land from which the water has subsided. PRICE ..4d. STAXPEDI....Sd. • turday fully realised the worst fears of the night. The wooden bridge at Hillfoot had disappeared—completely carried away by the first rush of water, and with a noise that startled the sleepers around, who sprang from their beds with alarm. The view from their windows did not tend to reassure them, for the flood was all around, boiling ; and seething along, filling the houses, rushing up the stairs, floating the beds and furniture. The screams and cries for help are described as heartrending. Just below the bridge, by the weir, stood a small house, occupied by James Shar man and his wife, who attended to the shuttle of the goit that supplies Messrs. Butcher's works at Philadelphia. The inmates were Sharman, his wife, and a daughter-in-law, with several children. The watchmen aroused them when the water began to rise, and they hastily left their dwelling. Scarcely had they been out of the house a minute when the current carried it away, and now not a vestige of the place remains except the foundation. The bridge over the goit went along with the house. At Philadelphia corn-mills, which stands close to the water's edge, a number of horses were drowned in their stables, pigs in their sties, and fowls on their roost. We have not heard that any life was lost at this point. Crossing to Bacon Island, a low-lying piece of ground between the goit and the river, the only access to whieh is now the nar row plank of the shuttle frame, we came at once into what had evidently been the very heart of the Hood in this part of the valley. Gardens were covered deep in slime. Trees, hedges, and walls wero levelled with the ground. A man and his wife, named Wright, lived in a block of houses here, with their child, and another child that was staying with them. On Friday Wright went to a funeral, and the neighbours did not know whether he had returned, but both he and his wife and one child are missing. One little thing was found in its bed after the water had sufficiently subdued to enable men to get about, but the other members of the household, perhaps aroused and attempting to escape, have been carried away. In the block of houses, forming an irregular square, of which Wright's formed a part, every one is damaged to a greater or less extent." The flood rose to the chambers and boated the inmates in their beds. The lower apartments are filled with broken furni- 1 SHEFFIELD, Sunday Evening. Every additional inquiry made into the circum stances of this appaling calamity shows that it has been much more disastrous than was at first antici pated. It is now estimated that the loss of life will exceed 250, and that the value of the property de stroyed exceeds half a million. From Bradfield, where the reservoir burst, down the course of th e rivers for 12 or 14 miles, the country is laid wast e . The reservoir covered an area of 76 acres, and would hold 114,000,000 cubic feet of water. The embankment, which crossed the end of the valley, was an enormous erection, with an average height of 85 feet, and 40 feet in thickness. It was 300 yards long. Between Matlock and Hillsborough, a distance of four miles, the greatest loss of life has been caused. Within this tract whole rows of houses have been swept entirely away, in three of which alone there were 25 lives lost. In the oppo site row the whole of the inhabitants were drowned, and scarcely any of their bodies have been dis. covered. The flood seems to have swept off every thing before it, from the confluence of the Loxley and the Revilin to the Don. Between Wardsend and Sheffield on the Don the bodies were seen lying in the mills and the mud and ruins. There were 14 in one place, 10 in another, and 13 in a third. At Neepsend 900 acres of gardens were devastated, and whole families were swept away. An official report just received states that 166 dead bodies have been already recovered; 70 have been identified. Large numbers are not yet found. Bodies have been dis covered as far down the river as Doncaster. Along the banks of the river, between that town and Shef field, the scene of the inundation was visited by vast crowds on Sunday. The police and a strong mili tary guard acted for the maintenance of order and the security of property. A movement for a general subscription was immediately commenced, and a meeting will be held to-morrow. The inhabitants of the submerged districts have lost everything, and an appeal for instant help will be made, hun dreds having nothing left of their property but their night-dresses. The inquests were opened on Satur day night, and then adjourned for ten days. There were then 90 bodies in the workhouse, and the coro ner said he had been informed there had been nearly 200 found. He referred to a statement, which is generally made and believed, that, in consequence of the dangerous state of the reservoir, warning was sent to the inhabitants of the valley as far as Darn flask, and that only a few lives were lost there, but that the warning was not sent to thickly peopled districts below. Strict inquiry will be necessary to ascertain if the accident could have been prevented. ture and mud. The doors and windows are broken in by the flood, and by the trees and wood that it carried along with it. Of course all the houses and works along the river side have been flooded, and damage to a fearful extent has been done. In Messrs. Butcher's works at Philadelphia the body of a woman, perfectly naked, was found, and it was believed that a whole family living near Neepsend-bridge had been washed away. In Ebenezer-street the body of a man, rather under the middle height, with a moustache, was found and conveyed to a house in Bowling-green-street. At Kelham rolling mill the men were compelled to escape by the roof, and in so doing managed by some means to set it on fire. When the flood had reached its height the water rapidly subsided, leaving the marks of its presence in the streets, which were in many places knee-deep in mud. Almost before they were passable persons sallied from their houses, and the evil news spread quickly. The streets of the town were thronged with persons hurrying to different parts, anxious to inquire into the fate of friends dwelling near the level of the river. While the darkness lasted little could be learnt from observation, but voices were heard shouting greetings over the wastes of mud and water, and eagerly inquiring how others had fared in the calamity. One had heard the first rush, and sprang out of bed to see the street filled with water. Another had been sleeping on the ground floor and heard a rush:of water, He awoke his companion, who thought it rained hard. No, it could not be rain, the rush was too great for that. The bed moved— it was wet—he put out his foot, and found himself up to the knees in cold water. Such incidents might be mul tiplied indefinitely. It needs only to be known that at the dead of the night a great dark flood sowed through a densely populated part of the town, rousing the sleepers from their beds, and 'only too frequently drowning them like rats in a hole. The horrors of Friday night are known in the hearts of thousands, but can never be told. The destruction of property all over the low-lying neigh bourhood round the ,Midland station has been enormous. This portion of the town was for a time completely in undated. All the large manufacturers aro believed to have suffered great loss, and the small householders are mostly ruined. The loss of property is bad enough, but the loss of life is the chief cause of regret here. Aroused from their sleep in the dead of night, the poor people, perhaps only half awake, seem to have made their way at once into the streets, and were swept away instantly. Several bodies recovered were partially dressed, while others were entirely naked, their clothing having been literally torn from their bodies by the violence of the stream. Carried away by the furious current, several bodies have been found in most extraordinary places—two having bee' washed among the carriages in the Midland station. The cast-iron bridge leading from tie Crofts to Nursery street has been entirely demolished, not a vestige remaining. The extreme force of the current at this point may be judged from the fact that before reaching the iron bridge the cur rent would have been considerably weakened by first com ing in contact with the Corporation-bridge. But in spite of everything buttresses, railing, and pavement have all been swept away like mere timber, and carried to an enor mous distance down the river. The water dashed over the wall on the Nursery-street side, actually tearing along with it the stout iron railings and the stones in which they were set. Large masses were driven across the street, a distance of eight yards, while others were broken into frag ments and several gas-lamps thrown down. The buildings on the opposite side of the street were consi derably damaged, and will require rebuilding in some instances. Tho entire front of the Manchester Rail way Hotel was broken in. Several low buildings on the water's edge, near the nursery corn mill, were swept entirely away, and a number of horses, pigs, &c., with them. At the corn mill the damage to the building was not large, but the stock of grain and flour was much injured, if not ren dered entirely worthless. The horses were confined in a stable in the yard, and the water rose to the height of more than 6ft., but the stable being lofty the horses were able to swim and were thus dived. All the houses in Nursery-street were submerged five or six feet in water, and the alarm of the inmates rose to a state of frensy when escape from their pitiable position seemed im possible. The buildings on both sides of the river, between the corn mill and Lady's-bridge, have suffered greatly, and all employment must be suspended for many days. The inhabitants of this neighbourhood were, however, more easily able to extricate themselves than the residents of some of the narrow streets with which the Nursery abounds. Stanley-street, Johnson-street, and Andrew-street were less fortunate, and formed channels for broad streams of water until daybreak on Saturday. The walls surrounding Trinity Church were completely destroyed, as were also those of Bethesda Chapel, Stanley street. The school room of the latter, which forms the basement story, was flooded to a considerable depth, and the fittings much damaged. The Attercliffe meadows on Dither side of the river are all under water, and immense quantities of wreck have been secured. The works in course of erection by Messrs. Nay lor and Vickers, near the Brightsido station, have sustained serious damage, the chimney bases, &c., already erected, having been washed down. The now wall skirting the South Yorkshire line has been partly destroyed. The bridge over this part of the river has stood, and an im mense mass of furniture and wreck has been stopped by it. It is impossible now oven to approximate the value of the property destroyed. No one seems for a moment to think of this in the presence of the fearful loss of life, the full ex tent of which is not likely to be known for some days to come. As is nearly always the case in these great public calamities, it is the poorest districts of the town only which have suffered. No accurate return can yet be made of the injuries which the workshops and forges of the great ma nufacturers in this part of the town have sustained, but from the enormous solidity of all their plant little more than temporary inconvenience is likely to have been occa sioned by the water. Ia the broad thoroughfare called the Wicker immense damage has been done to the tradespeople. Rushing with terrific force through Mr. White's slate-yard, close by Lady's-bridge, the water carried everything before it, strew ing the carcasses of animals, pieces of machinery, and large trees on every hand. Gradually the flood increased, and within an hour of its first breaking through the river's brink the houses and shops were inundated to the depth of several feet. The shutters of many of the shops were torn down, and the contents of the windows washed in all directions. Many shops were at least 3ft deep in water, though standin g at a much greater elevation from the causeway than o thers - of less recent construction. Tho loss sustained by th e tradesmen in this neighbourhood will be v ery great, as many of them had large stocks of goods in their cellars. Several people aro missing in this neighbourhood ; four bodies had been recovered by 5 o'clock on Saturday morning, and conveyed to the Bull and Oak, but they have not been identified. DONCASTER, Saturday Evening. Tho inundation throughout the entire valley of the river Don has been unprecedented ; and not even the great flood of 1857 was so prolific of damage as this has been. The Don, owing to late heavy rains, was unusually high, and the additional water thrown into it by the Sheffield calamity has thrown hundreds upon hundreds of acres un der water, and inflicted incalculable injury on the growing crops.tlnformation of the disaster was early telegraphed to this town, and by the direction of Mr, Superintendent Gre gory, of the borough police force, intimation was at once given to the inhabitantsof Marshgate, a district of Doncas ter contiguous to the Don, and in flood times under water. Speedy steps to insure safety was taken, but at no time did the water rise so high :as to place human life in jeopardy. About eight o'clock the water had risen so quickly that Crimpsall, behind the Great Northern Railway sta tion, was covered, and with high water at Readby at 1Q o'clock it was feared that the water would spread, to the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1864. MR. SHERIDAN LE FANU'S /SEW NOVEL. At all Libraries, WYLDER'S HAND. 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TII E OXF 0 It , R, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAUiT, embracing the entire company of this establishment, with augmented band and chorus ; and other Musical Entertainments, supported by the following talented artistes:—Misses Russell. Fitz-Henry, Tyrrell,lW almsley ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green, &a. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. UNSWORTH and EUGENE will make their re-appear. ance This Evening. Comedy, by Mr. T. Maclagran, W. , Randall, G. Hutchenson G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power (the juvenile comedienne), &c., &a. Will shortly be produced, TILE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, by Otto Nicolal; anl THE TWO GENTLE MEN OF VERONA, by Sir Henry Bishop. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balc3ny, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. The Fairy Entertainment, entitled PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS! Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. 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Turning towards Sheffield and commencing a brief exploration of the ruins showed that the tidings of disaster failed to represent the fall ex tent of the dreadful catastrophe. Whole families were swept away with their dwellings, and not a trace remained of the thriving and industrious arti sans who sought their beds on Friday night, uncon scious of the dreadful fate that has so suddenly be fallen them. A forge upon a headland near the junction of the two streams was swept away with all its heavy machinery, and two men who were working at the hammers were among the first victim. The volume of water there seems to have entirely swept away one row of cottages, and destroyed the back wall of another row, leaving only the front wall and some portions of the flooring in a precarious state. Among the first of the houses that fell was the Stag public-house kept by a person named Armitage. The family numbered 11 persons, and they are all drowned. On the headland above named was a farm house inhabited by a family named Trickett. The house was swept away with all its occupants, who are stated to have numbered 10 or 11 persons. The farm premises with 14 milch cows were carried away by the flood. Not a vestige of the homestead remains. Near to the house lived a Mr. Price, a shopkeeper, whose household, including his son and daughter-in-law, numbered six persons, all of whom are drowned. It is said that in this row of houses there was a woman who had been but two days confined. The infant was washed out of her arms and the mother was found dead in the road among part of the ruins. In one of the detached houses near this row lived a family named Spooner. With them lived an old man, 74 years of age, named William Wostenholm, the father of Mrs. Spooner. There were ten in the family, and not one of them sur vives. Near the spot on Saturday was a little boy, a grand- son of Wostenholm, who was weeping bitterly and seeking in vain to discover even a vestige of the house where his relatives had lived. The next row of houses, called Bower's buildings, are very strongly built, and, though they are greatly injured, they have been saved from utter destruc tion. But the condition of the walls of many of the houses testifies to the force with which the water dashed past. In some instances the inmates, who were, of course, in bed, were compelled to remain in the upper rooms for several hours before they could be released. One of the houses destroyed was occupied by a man named Cropper and his wife and two children. They were all drowned, and their bodies swept away. Near to their house was one occupied by an old man and his grandson. The old man saved him self by escaping to the garret, but his grandson was jammed by some of the furniture in a corner of the stairs, and was drowned almost within reach of his relative. William Watson lived in one of the same row of houses with his wife and two children. The flood demolished their house and carried them out, but Watson, as he was being whirled along on the surface of the torrent, grasped a broken win dow-frame in one of the partially submerged houses, and was saved, but his wife and children are lost. A publiehouse kept by George Bisby was partially demolished, only one of the bedrooms and back kitchen remaining. Bisby, his wife, and four children are gone. Next are a row of houses called the " brick row." Down both front and back of these houses the flood had raged in all its fury. The mud upon the houses showed that the waters had risen from 16 to 18 feet above the roadway. The first house of the row was tenanted by a man named Dyson, his wife and children, and one or two relatives. They were ten in number, but only one of them is saved. The survivor is Dyson's brother, and he esoaped in a very remarkable manner. Ho was sleeping in the top bedroom, and being awakened by the rush of the water, and finding escape into the road cut off, he smashed a portion of the lath and plaster partition, made his way to the joists beneath the roof, and then broke through the slates and got upon the roof, where he remained till assis- tance could be given to him. In the back of the last house of this row two children named Atkinson were swept out of their bedroom along with the bed on which they were lying and were drowned. In the next two houses resided two families named Turner and one named Taplin. The uncer tain statements of the surviving neighbours fix the number in each house at seven and eight, but not a trace of them or their houses is left. The Hillsborough Inn had a narrow escape from total demolition. The Shakepere Inn across the road suffered to a similar extent. The passages were several feet deep in mud, and at the parlour door, roughly stretched upon a wooden bier, was the naked corpse of a man which had been dug out of the mud and rubbish op posite the house. In a stable attached to the Yew Tree Inn were six corpses—three women and three men. They were laid upon stretchers just as they had been dug out of the mud or dragged from out of the hedges, cr beneath trunks of great trees or beams of timber that had been whirled down the current. In the bed which one branch of the current had made for itself behind the Hillsborough Inn we saw the bodies of a man and a woman whom there had not been time to get out. The body of the man was partially buried, and the woman was laid beneath the bank. She had on her drawers and one stocking. She had clung with convulsive tenacity to a piece of plink, but it had proved insufficient to save her. Leaving Hillsborough, and turning down towards Owler • ton, the destruction appeared to be on a equally awful scale. A number of oottage houses were completely washed away, and a thick deposit of mud concealed the well•kept gardens that had been the pride of the cottagers. Almost every house that remained in a habitable condition was used as a dead house. At every turning were to be met parties of policemen and volunteers, bearing each a ghastly burden In the publichouse kept by Mr. Holland were five dead bodies. In the Victoria, further on the 0 wlerton road, there were four, which during our brief stay there were increased to seven. In a stable attached to a beerhouse were two bodies; in another stable, upon heaps of straw, three mangled forms were laid out. On the road side be- yond the Victoria were one or two bodies, which would be " dug out" when the labourers had time to attend to them. In the stream there we saw the mangled body of a girl about ,0 years old, which had been apparently cut in two by a heavy piece of timber with machinery attached to it. Close by the searchers discovered the mangled body of a man in a muddy pool. It was removed to one of the inns. In the same street, at ono and the same moment, we met throe parties of bearers, each carrying a dead body. On the Sheffield side of the stream seven or eight bodies were recovered, and were taken to the Queen's Hovel. They are not yet identified. The force of the current may be estimated by the fact that the massive wall bounding the barracks on the lower side was swept away. The flood invaded the quarters of the sergeants, and two of the infant children of Paymaster Sergeant Foulds were drowned in their bed. The sentry at the gate had the narrowest pos- Bible escape, the flood coming upon him with lightning suddenness. At Neepsend, the Sheffield Daily Telegraph says:— " One part of a large factory has been cut away as clean as if it had been sawn down close by the partition wall. A little further on is a row of houses with their fronts removed, and the honeycombed arrangements of the rooms fully ex posed to view. Near these transverse sections or interiors of houses are numerous gardens, in which there is now no sign of vegetation, but a tangle of torn shrubs and the ruffled and tangled appearance of these gardens is as odd as that of the unswePt floor of a hair seating manufactory. Near the ditches and corners of these gardens men knee deep in mud are looking anxiously about for the forms of women, and men, and children, and lost property. The neighbourhood is of red brick, and the height of the dark water mark on these houses argues not only a fearful destruction of property, but a not less fearful destruction of life. The flood has come upon this low-lying neighbourhood like a thief in the night, and the water mark shows that some of the houses have been submerged nearly to the roof, some have been filled up to the level of the second storey, and in others which stand a little higher the water mark is about shoulder height." In the town of Sheffield itself the destruction of property as been almost greater than in the valley, but there, for tunately, it has been attended with comparatively little loss of life. The She f field Telegraph s t a t es that— "ln the town the first alarm was given at about a quarter past 12. The sharp hiss as of escaping steam, the sound as of a mighty rush of water, made people rush towards the river, when it was found that the Don was in an extraordi nary flood, and that some dreadful calamity had occurred. At 2 o'clock the height and force of the current had greatly abated. There was still a great volume of water, and the roar with which it went along was like that of an express train in a cutting. On Lady's. bridge a great number of people were standing looking over the parapets on the fear ful heaps of timber mixed with straw and other debris which the flood had piled up against the masonwork of the bridge, The immense quantity of rafters, flooring, joists, planks, and miscellaneous articles heaped to within a few feet of the top of the bridge told a portentous story of buildings destroyed, and melancholy were the forebodings of those who looked on the ruin. There seemed wood enough to build a village. But bad as were the fears of those who looked on the evidences of disaster, none knew how dreadful was the reality, and the majority had not the most distant idoa of tho loss of life that had occurred. At the police station was a little crowd of poor ill-dressed people who had been flooded out of their dwellings, and who were glad to spend the night crouching round the fire ; and in the streets were several people mov ing about hastily with torches which they had improvised. But as yet, beyond the sight of wet people and wet streets, and beyond the roar of the river, and those ominous, but as yet unexplained, heaps of timber about the bridge, there %vas nothing known among the crowd of the loss of life, and the spectators fondly hoped that the mass of wood might prove to be nothing but the contractor's plant, increased by rubbish swept from the banks of the river." 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Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul'. ESIDENCE.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to LET or SELL an excellent Detached HOUSE at Hackney, containing 16 rooms, basement, &c. The neigh bourhood is pleasant and healthy; soil gravel, Rent, £9O. Price, freehold, £1,600. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. IRELAND. -Mr. ANDREW HIND has for SALE the Lessee's Interest in a convenient Small RESIDENCE and 76 Acres of prime LAND, pleasantly situate near the City of Cork, and commanding beautiful views of the harbour and surrounding country. Good shoot ing and fishing. Term of lease, 91 years; ground rent, £72. Price, £7OO. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. IMPORTANT INFORMATION. DR. ROBERTS' POOR MAN'S FRIEND is confidently recommended to the Public as an unfail ing remedy for wounds of every description, burns, scalds, chilblains, scorbutic eruptions, sore and inflamed eyes, , tc• Sold in note. ls. lid. 2s. 9d., 11 s., and 225. each. Also his PILULIE ANTISCIfOPHUL/E, confirmed by sixty years' experience to be one of the best alterative medicines ever offered to the public. They form a mild and superior Family Aperient, that may be taken at all times without confine ment or change of diet. Sold in boxes, ls. lid., 2s. 9d., 45. 6d., is., and 225. each. SOld• wholesale by the proprietorq, Beach and Barnicott, Bridoort, by the London houses, and retail by all respectable medicine vendors in the United Kingdom and Colonies. TEETH. —Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can b e made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without pain or extraction of stumps, an d to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they arc quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so ;table to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations r ree.-B,G rosven or street, Bond-street, W, ; aad at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. THE OVERLAND MAIL. By the arrival of the overland mail we have advices from Calcutta to Feb. 8; Madras, Feb, 15; Colombo, Feb. 17 ; Hong Kong, Feb. 1; Singapore, Feb. 4 ; Sydney, Jan 21 ; Melbourne, Jan. 25 ; Brisbane, Jan. 19 ; Auckland, Dec. 31; Dunedin, Jan. 18, &e. INDIA. His Excellency the Viceroy remains at Calcutta for the present, and it is now thought that he will not leave for the Upper Provinces until a later period than was anticipated. Sir Hugh Rose con- tinues at Peshawar, where his heavy camp will join him. There have been some rumours to the effect that Sir John Lawrence is not in good health but they are declared to be baseless. llis Excellency is just now engaged on a most er.cellent scheme of sanitary reform, which will extend to all the cities and great towns subject to his proper jurisdiction. A central board of health is to be established at Calcutta, in direct communi cation with the supreme government, and having under it local boards or committees throughout the provinces, whose duty it will be in all respects to look after the particular interests confided to their care, and who will be controlled by the headquarter department. The Ftiend of India regards this measure as one of the most important social reforms ever attempted in India, and considers it the first fulfilment of the promise which the appointment of Sir John Lawrence held out to the country. " We are happy to say (says the Madras Athe neum) that quietude practically prevails on the British frontier lately the scene of warfare, and that parts beyond the passes are not more disturbed than when we last wrote. Affghanistan is full as usual of intestine broils, which threaten a convul sion that may upset the throne of the Ameer, but do not in the meantime concern us, however much their results may do so afterwards.' A public meeting of the native inhabitants of the Bengal Presidency was held in Calcutta on the Ist of February, for the purpose of taking into o onsi. deration the propriety of testifying to his honour the Lieutenant-Governor their sense of apprecia tion of his earnest desire and active endeavours to improve the agriculture and cattle of Bengal by instituting the Agricultural Exhibition in this country. The meeting was well attended. "The important question of our currency (says the Hurkaru) and its inadequate and unsound con dition for the growing prosperity of the country, and the enlarged requirements of commerce, is attracting general notice." "A frightful catastrophe has occurred in con nection with the Cooly Ferry, in the Paurnben Strait (says the Cotembo Observer, of Feb. 17). A small vessel, carrying return coolies from Ceylon, was caught in a waterspout, capsized, and, Melan choly to relate no fewer than 115 persons, perished." JAPAN. Our files of Yokohama papers extend to the 9th of January. On the 2d of January a deputation waited upon Colonel Neale, and reiterated the d e mand that foreigners should leave Yokohama, and confine themselves to Nagasaki and Hakodadi. Colonel Neale dwelt upon the general friendliness of the Japanese people, and asserted that all the difficulties hitherto experienced had arisen from the obstructions thrown in our way by the govern ment itself. In proof of this he adduced the fact that 18 mercantile houses had lately been closed, and the silk trade seriously impeded. He informed the ministers in the most unequivocal manner that any interference with English trade would be met by an immediate stoppage of the native junk trade, and, moreover, that should they decide on sending an embassy to Eu ro p e , h e woul d i n the meanw hile exact the most sc ru p u l ous o b servance o f t h e treaties. The Shanghae Commercial News says that the em bassy above ref erre d to had b een d es p a tched, and that it reached Shanghae on the 25th of January. tugal has offer e d t o th e Ki ng of oletaatliyon to of Austria hn oo 6 oin u e l n at his disp osa l , i n case the d The Itali e of T ur i n sta t es th a t the King of Per. p ro vocations compel the Itali an G overn ment to take the field. EXIIIIIITION CLOCK.—" The entire finish is of th e highest caste,"—Daily flews, May- 29, 1562. Clo c k s de signed by th e fi rst ar ti s t s of the day for the drawi ng room, dining room, bed room, library, hall, stair case, b racket, carriage, church, turret, railways, warehou se, counting house, musical, and astronomical. Ch urc h and turret bl clocks specially estim ated for. Ben son's illustrated pam wtpihaonlreladt aontnodcsple or i c e e icek t sm' a (fernaes who live i n any par t o f th e epostlhose for two st amps ) , with descrip tionsby clock. Also a short pamphlet on cathe dral and public clocks, free for o ne stamp. P r i ze me d a l and honourable mention in classes 33 and 15. J. W, Ben son, 33 and 31, Ludgate-hill, London. Established ITO. Watch and clock maker by special warrant of appointment to his 11 RM. the Princelof Wales. THE ORIGINAL ROYAL BUCKINGHAM SAUCE, for Roast Meat, Hashes, Gravies, Stews, Steaks, Soups, Fish, Game, &c. Prepared only by the proprietors, THOS. BUCK and Co., 10, Bath-place, Dalston, London, N.E. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind lit the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Thcir world-wide celebrity p rov es them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at i s . lid. snd 2s. 9d. ; or free by poet for 14 or 33 stamps from rage D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. TERRIBLE CALAMITY AT SHEFFIELD, TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST.. At a little before midnight on Friday last one o ,here terrific disasters to which nearly all the great towns in the north of England are now more or less exposed happened at Sheffield. The great reser voir of the Sheffield Water Company—a reservoir nearly 100 acres in extent, and which held more than a million cubic feet of water, suddenly burst its embankment and swept with the fury of another deluge down the narrow gorge formed by the Lox ley and Stannington Hills into Sheffield itself. Almost before warning could be given the volume of waters began rushing headlong down thevalley, sweeping farms and houses, forges and factories, like ebEff beforo it. Never, probably, before has an accident of the sumo kind occurred so ruinous in its wholesale destruction of property, E 0 la mentably fatal in the loss of human life. What ever the sudden and tremendous flood could reach it seems to have destroyed, and, calculating only by the number of houses swept away and the persons missing who were known to have been in them on the fatal night, there is every reason to fear that the lives sacrificed by this awful calamity will not be less than 200, if they do not unfortu nately exceed even that number. Of the damage done to property it is impossible at this early date to form even a conjecture-. The devastation in this respect is unparalleled. A large, populous, and thriving district has been almost obliterated from the earth, scarce more than traces of the houses and factories that once stood there now remaining. Those who are acquainted with the neighbour hood of Sheffield know that at a considerable ele vation above the town, on the little Matlock side, in the nook where the Loxley and Stannington Hills join, the great reservoirs of the Sheffield Water Com pany are placed. In this part of the country, between five and six miles from Sheffield, the reservoirs form such picturesque accessories to the surrounding hills that no one who ha s seen them will easily forget them, while, on the other hand, those who have once seen them will understand at the very men tion of their name h ow d estructive must h ave b een their bursting into th e steep overlooked, and whi c h led direct i nto t h e l ower parts of Sheffield. valley which they Tne Bradfield reservoir which gave way so fatally was of immense length, though narrow in width, and would hold 114,000,000 cubic feet of water when it was full ; but it is said it was not quite fall on Friday. Ominous reports had been current as to the state of the embankment, which is of enormous death and thickness, and was thought to be of com. mensurate strength. Its appearance of massive uwreevre ,rc rossing the embankment 4s a the engineers in charge had r 8 9 h o o n d F c r u id t ay ac n r i o g s h s t,tahfete belied by th e f a cts. About valley, He at once gave an alarm, an d ran down the va ll ey I s e e f l t i , d a ity far w m ae la h bo e to recall the engineers noticed a crack in it. (Mr. Gunson and another gentleman), and he succeeded in overtaking them. They returned, but thought the crack of little im portance; in a short time, however, other signs pre sented themselves, and they attempted to blow up a weir that crossed the dam at one end, in order to While the men were e a n il g o a w ge t d he in wlaayteinrgtotheasecahpe. Mr. Gunson and hisara companion went to the fissure and crossed it. Mr. Gunson had scarcely got clear, when the fissure widened to a tremendous crevatme, and a portion of "d`s long by 70 f ee t d ee p, world of wa t er " rus hed gave embankment wa y atenee , , a l n lo d t y h a e r valley below. The hillsides with a din enormouswit ha p ro m d i a g a i s ou h s a r r a o t a d r, ewn intotthhee like the heaviest thunder, and the unhappy cottiers in the valley were drowned in stantaneously in their houses, from which they had not the slightest chance of escape. - The full fury of the flood spent itself on the dis trict lying between the junction o f the Loxley and the Rivelin and the Neepsend b r i dge. The scene of devastati o n there is awful. S olid and workshops, sub stantial buildings, rows of houses, bridges, ever ything that oppos e d t h e course o f the flood, yi e lded before its ov erw h elming m i ght. All were whelmed beneath the m i g h ty rus h o f the incal culablewaters.as it B u t the loss of property, is at present, sink s i nto insignifi cance when compared with the awf u l l oss o f h uman life Persons who are familiar w i t h the d i str i ct will know that between Hillsborough -bridge and Malin-bridge there stood several long rows of cot tage houses, inhabited by the workmen of the mills and forges on the adjacent streams with their fami- exceptions the flood has wholly lies. With a few demolished all these rows of dwellings. In many instances even their foundations ar e o blit er ated. Standing at the junction of th e L oxley al.d t h e ltivelin are only a few scattered houses, the walls and wi n d ows burst in by the fl oo d , stan di ng to mark th e site of the once pop u l ous village. The enormous volume of water debauching from the gorge at the foot of Loaley valley seems to have divided itself into two streams, which swept with resistless force over the hamlets of Malin-bridge and Hillsborough. The bridges that formerly crossed the stream have been swept away to their foundation stones, and the districts which the